THE STOCKS IN QUESTION STILL BELONG TO HALLIBURTON!!!! An OPTION to purchase them at a given price is ALREADY HELD BY THE IRREVOCABLE TRUST! Do you understand that an OPTION is not a STOCK??? Do you jnderstand it is only an option to purchase that stock at some time in the future at a given price???? Those options are now owned by a trust set up to benefit charities! Those charities will gain from this option to purchase these stocks at some point in the future. Do you understand the term "irrevocable"???? It means the Cheney's cannot revoke the deal!

Oh, and I'm not a republican. I don't have a portfolio.

If anyone was to rebuild the oil industry in a country WE, America, liberated, I suppose you think those contracts should have been awarded to the French? Perhaps the Russians? You would have awarded those contracts to countries and companies who had been corruptly gaming the Oil-For-Food Program with the aid of the UN???? I suppose you would have asked Iran for help to rebuild the oil industry in Iraq?

And had the Russians/French/Germans, etc taken on the job, would you somehow have the notion that they should work free??? that's what you seem to think of our Amerrican contractors.

OF COURSE some contractors are making money restoring Iraq, or trying to do so. They deserve to be paid for the work they do same as anyone else.

Halliburton was doing that sort of work for decades before the Bush Administration. The Clintons even hired Halliburton when they were outbid by Dyncorp BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY DOING TO JOB AND HAD THE EXPERTISE IN THE AREA for things they wanted and needed done. YOU want Iraq rebuilt by the lowest bidder?????? I want it done right.

You are so filled with hatred for this administration, for Bush and Cheney, you slander them regularly and haven't a clue!

I suppose after we liberated Iraq it would have been just GRAND with you if Germany got those contracts???? After fighting tooth and tong against changing things because they would lose money and be found out for cheating on the Oil-For-Food program....or perhaps France? More cheaters. Perhaps you think the Chinese should be there doing the work?

If you so hate America, why not go over there and discover for yourself who the genocidal fascists are? I think you read too much propaganda, and worse, you believe it so long as America is the bad guy! Shame on you.